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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






2. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






3. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






4. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






5. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






6. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






7. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






8. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






9. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






10. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






11. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






12. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






13. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






14. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






15. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






16. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






17. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






18. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






19. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






20. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






21. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






22. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






23. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






24. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






25. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






26. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






27. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






28. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






29. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






30. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






31. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






32. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






33. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






34. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






35. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






36. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






37. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






38. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






39. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






40. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






41. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






42. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






43. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






44. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






45. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






46. The process of completing each project procurement






47. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






48. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






49. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






50. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups